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An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020
The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the understanding that persisting systems must regulate environmental exchanges and prevent entropic accumulation.
Adam Safron
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Elementary Inquiry-Based Integrated Information Literacy Curriculum: Theory & Practice [PDF]

open access: yesJiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, 2018
According to the recent performance in PISA and PIRLS, it shows that our students lack digital reading literacy, proper ICT use, and information evaluation.
Lin Ching Chen
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Four-Types of IIT-Induced Group Integrity of Plecoglossus altivelis

open access: yesEntropy, 2020
Integrated information theory (IIT) was initially proposed to describe human consciousness in terms of intrinsic-causal brain network structures. Particularly, IIT 3.0 targets the system’s cause–effect structure from spatio-temporal grain and reveals the
Takayuki Niizato   +6 more
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What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The nature of consciousness is considered one of science’s most perplexing and persistent mysteries. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within
Helané Wahbeh   +4 more
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Integrated Information in Process Theories

open access: yesCoRR, 2020
18 pages, 4 page ...
Sean Tull, Johannes Kleiner
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Non-Separability of Physical Systems as a Foundation of Consciousness

open access: yesEntropy, 2022
A hypothesis is presented that non-separability of degrees of freedom is the fundamental property underlying consciousness in physical systems. The amount of consciousness in a system is determined by the extent of non-separability and the number of ...
Anton Arkhipov
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Mechanism Integrated Information

open access: yes, 2021
The Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness starts from essential phenomenological properties, which are then translated into postulates that any physical system must satisfy in order to specify the physical substrate of consciousness.
Larissa Albantakis   +3 more
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On the Operational Utility of Measures of Multichannel EEGs

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
Multichannel EEGs were obtained from healthy participants in the eyes-closed no-task condition and in the eyes-open condition (where the alpha component is typically abolished).
David Darmon   +3 more
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Why Can the Brain (and Not a Computer) Make Sense of the Liar Paradox?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Ordinary computing machines prohibit self-reference because it leads to logical inconsistencies and undecidability. In contrast, the human mind can understand self-referential statements without necessitating physically impossible brain states.
Patrick Fraser   +3 more
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Sensing Qualia

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
Accounting for qualia in the natural world is a difficult business, and it is worth understanding why. A close examination of several theories of mind—Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism, and Integrated Information Theory—will be discussed ...
Paul Skokowski, Paul Skokowski
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